Knitted shirt



(No Model.)

J AXF'ORD. KNIhTTED SHIRT.

No. 416,317. Patented Dc. 3, 1889.

WITNESSES ATTORN Ev.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN AXFORD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

KNITTED SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,317', dated December 3, 1889.

i Application iled August 29, 1889. Serial No. 322,327. (No model) T all whom it may oon/cern:

Be it known that I, JOHN AXFORD, a citizen I of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Knitted Underwear, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specilication and accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to knitted underwear; and it consists of the provision in a knitted shirt of means whereby the same fits better and more comfortably around the shoulders and armpits, avoiding gathering of the material at said places, shortening the shoulders, and increasing the play of the arm and the elasticity'of'the shirt around the chest.

The drawing represents a knitted shirt einbodyin g my invention.

Referring to the drawing, A designates a shirt having arm-holes or sleeve-openings B, at the lower'partfof which are extensions or tongues O,for1ned integral with the shoulder portions of the shirt and primarily open at top, the tube primarily formed being cut ata. and the tongue lowered, as shown at theleft-hand side of the iigure. The line Z9 of the openings B is substantially vertical to the point D, and from thence the top edges of the tongues C extend outward at an angle and are either curved or straight, the line I) of the openings B being nearer toward the center of the shirt than the sides below the arms, thereby shortening the shoulders and allowing for the formation of said tongues. The under side of the inner ends of the sleeves E are primarily open on the line F, and the edges or walls of said openings are stitched, knitted, or otherwise seamed to the edges or Walls of the top openings of the tongues, the inner ends of the sleeves being also connected with the shirt at the line of the openings B. The part joined onto the sleeve is just as elastic as the body and will improve the sleeve as to fitting.

A shirt thus formed overcomes many existing difculties and possesses advantages hereinbefore set forth.

Having thus described myinvention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A knitted shirt having the line of its arm-holes nearer to the center of the shirt than are the sides of the body, tongues integral with the body, and sleeves secured to said body and tongues, said parts combined substantially as described.

2. A knitted shirt having tongues formed integral wit-h the body thereof and sleeves having openings on the under sides attached to the tops of said tongues, substantially as described.

3. A knitted shirt formed of a tube of fabric having cut portions at its upper edge forining tongues integral with the sides thereof and provided with sleeves secured to the cut edges of the tubular portion and the tongues, substantially as described.

JOHN AXFORD.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. J ENNINGS. 

